My mom said basically the same thing, putting a date of 2 years on anyone who got the vaccine. Here we are way past that mark.

She’s still a lunatic, and I’ve been low contact with her for months now.

“MAKE LINE GO UP FOR YOUR OWNERS”

Hell I’d take the right to build my own at this point. But I don’t trust the U.S. to be worth living in for any foreseeable future.

If you’re going fast enough for a ramp to send you into space, you’re already going sufficiently fast to have a set of wings to carry you the majority of the altitude you need to achieve. And at that point, you’re trying to make a SSTO space plane. But those aren’t currently viable with existing technology due to inefficiencies in current rocket designs.

Earth is big, with a very deep gravity well. It’s not well suited for fully self powered space planes.

lol those are actually two seperate Le Guin novels

You’re right, I think my brain fell out a bit when I said that lol.

I’ve just started The Dispossessed.

imagine Linux in an anarchist utopia where devs could just focus on making it better without corporate interests!

I’d think in such a world, it would very quickly become the dominant operating system.

TSA exists, therefore…

I finished The Left Hand of Darkness this week. I can only imagine how rock solid Linux would be in a world like that, where nearly 100 planets could cooperate on it instantaneously.

Billionaires are inherently evil.

I’m making a push to hoard my books a little more organized. With the space I have on my e-reader, I could easily have thousands of books.

And I intend to take advantage of that. And I think I might keep a local git repo just for the sake of making sure regex formatting changes don’t fuck things up.

A plane that caught the wire was pulled down onto the flexible carpet and slowed to a halt with a runout of only a few feet. A crane then lifted the aircraft onto a trolley; the trolley was winched forward for lowering to the hangar deck by elevator or to the catapult for launching.

Sounds like a pain in the ass

Don’t forget shitting!

Never used RiF, but I left at the same time. The writing was on the wall.

Even the best path out of the current situation involves us fighitiny the current rise in fascism around the world, and even an optimistic prediction for the path of climate change is harrowing.

I’m not putting a kid through that.

Glad to see things are back, thank you for communicating during the downtime and running a good instances.

Becoming a lobbyist doesn’t sound like leaving politics.

At no point does the question say that the pizzas are the same diameter.

You didn’t even give us the NSFW bonus panel. For shame.

If it works it works.

The actual dialogue is good, I agree. But even the best talented actors in the world can’t undo the mixing of a space ship transmitting sound as if there is air while going faster than light.